an eighteen-hole course by Tom Plazio. You have a nine-hole course by Jack Nicklaus . You have a, driving range here by ArnoldPalmer . You're building a Gary Player. Nine hole course. You have a putting course by Tom Watson. But you're not stopping there. What do you have for us today? Well we're very excited that Bill Cuer and Ben Crenshaw are going to build a great 18 hole course for us on a beautiful ridge over here on the Ozarks not far away. But beautiful vistas and we couldn't be more proud that they're going to help us build this golf course . That's pretty good news for the world of golf. And as a fan of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw's work I, I know why you, you selected this architectural team, but you tell me why you picked it. Well, I was

the show. Matt, good morning, we have the news. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw building a course. At Top of the Rock. Why is this so significant? Oh. Well, you know, first of all, it's a great destination as is. And the fact that it's about to get better. If you are an outdoorsman and you love golf, then you're gonna love the Big Cedar Lodge. You're gonna love all that is here at Top of the Rock. You know what I think of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw . The thoughtful architecture that is. You know, rising to the top and becoming the forefront of major developers and course owners, as they gravitate towards the Coore and Crenshaws, the Gil Hanses, the Tom Doaks. That's good for the game of golf. You know, Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw . Have been building golfcourses for about 28 years. They only have about 28 new courses in their portfolio. So, for them to be signing on for something like this, it is very significant. Matt, we know that you're a big fan of the pair of Coore/Crenshaw. But also a big fan of the big event coming up in just about three weeks. The Legends of Golf Tournament at Big Cedar Lodge. Top of the rock. Matt, you were telling me that there's 30 major champions in the field? How

impressive you know you talked about the par 3 course built by Jack Nicklaus , the driving range by Arnold Palmer , the putting course by Tom Watson, he's building a family course designed by Gary Player. He's got a Tom Fazio 18 holes but as you said he's not stopping there. He is now building a Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw . Golfcourse commissioned these two top minimalist architects to add to his portfolio. I got the chance to walk that raw land with Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw and Johnny Morris. And now you get a little peak on how Bill and Ben interact with each other, and also how

in Ben Eoin, overlooks Bras d'Ors lakes, and it's home to the PGAtour Canada's Cape Breton Celtic Classic. Le Portage Golf Club is in the Acadian village of Cheticamp, located between the Cape Breton highlands and the Gulf of St Lawrence. It's a convenient stop along the Cabot trail. Known for a memorable 4 hole finish, Bell Bay Golf Course is in Baddeck. Awarded Best New Golf Course in Canada by Golf Digest in 1998, it's in the top 100 courses in Canada, according to Score Golf magazine. Another gem of Cape Breton is Highlands Links, which was built by Stanley Thompson. Canada's most prolific golf architect. Highlands Links is really just a genuine old

the timeline, but there's also a lot of big things in this golf course's future. You pointed out close to downtown, could have a future on the PGAtour . Yeah, and that's also very exciting too. We're not talking about just a course that will be private and not a lot of people will see, it's inevitable that this will get. To the Byron Nelson . We know that the contract at TPC Las Colinas goes through 2018, but that's not from what I understand, that doesn't mean that'll actually happen until 2018. The timeline of uh,Trinity Forest is that they'll, they'll, they'll. They're routing it now and they're building it now. They'll grass it next year it'll start looking really good by the, by fall of next year. You're probably gonna get a soft opening in spring of 2016. Golf will be played on that golf course in the summer of 2016. I, I get a strong sense of give it all to people who are involved here which includes AT&T which will become the titled sponsor to Byron Nelson . The PGA tours involved. SMU has contributed some money, and they will use it as their home course. There will be a

giving players plenty of options. Pinehurst, back to being a second shot golf course . 35 acres of traditional high grass rough that chop it out USopen rough. That's gone, it's now au naturale. Sand that could be firm, could in some cases have footprints and you could see for example two balls 12 inches apart. One guy might have a clean shot, the other could be in a clump of grass. Wall to wall irrigation has been replaced with center water lines. They took out 650 irrigation heads. The golf course , depending on weather, will be bouncier, browner. So turf maintenance has been important here. And several bunkers have been restored, eliminated or

Our travel guru Matt Miller in studio eight, bring it in man, No place like home, no place like home. How are you? It's good to be back. So where you been? 33 days to start, this trip started in May by the way, starting at Orlando Florida. I went to Pinehurst, North Carolina. Met up with Bill Core for a little reporting on the feature that ran the week of the USOpen . Got to go to Thomasville North Carolina, with Bill Core, there's the Lexington Golf Club, and that is Bill Core and I with Hammy Snead. Hammy Snead, 82 wins for Hammy Snead From Pinehurst, North Carolina flew up to Farshills, New Jersey , went to the the golf house there. US GA? Home of the US GA. Met up with Mike Davis, did a little more reporting there for the story on why Pinehurst restored number two, and that was the U.S. Open Room. That was the trophy room there, The U.S. Open trophy, was still at home at that point. Wow and you're just getting started, where did you go after Far Hills, New Jersey ? Yeah from Far Hills, New Jersey down to Austin Texas. Met up with Ben Crenshaw, do a little more reporting on the Bill Core story and why restore

to Pinehurst? Back to Pinehurst, now is for the week of the USOpen and I had to spent some time there and debuted some of the features that we ran on Bill Core, on Ben

like a lightning bolt out of a blue sky. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have built 28 courses in their 26 years of being partners in the architectural firm known as Coore and Crenshaw. Everyone knows two-time Masters Champion Ben Crenshaw , but no one knows Bill Coore. Who? According to Mike Kaiser , owner of Band and Dunes will go down as the most prominent golf architect of the modern era. An only child of a single mom, who worked two jobs to provide for her small family, young William had a lot of time to be a kid in the sticks of North Carolina. From the mailbox, to the only neighbors backyard. Coore was designing golfcourse long before he paid for a green fee. This is the nine hole course that I truly grew up playing on. The first shot I ever hit on a golfcourse was off that tee down there and it, much to my amazement went in the air and went down the fairway and to my neighbor Donald's amazement. He was, literally almost rendered almost speechless. He was expected to lose then, I was, too. There was gonna be a dribble and we're, I'm going like, whoa. He probably lost it. There's another short fore. It was a, it was a tight. It wasn't like I sat around and dreamed of becoming a golfcourse designer. My mother would come home from work and I would say, I'm going to be a nuclear scientist. I am gonna

growing up, he would bring me over here. He loved this little golfcourse . It's where I got probably my first lesson in golf architecture, which I didn't realize at the time. It was a little

to us. We knew we were, we were playing a dollar off golfcourse . We would actually pay, $5.00, to play golf for a day pass. I can remember playing 54 holes of golf on Pinehurst number two in one day. That's when I saw a golfcourse that Pete Dye was doing. Oh man. This is fantastic. This is amazing. I wonder how you do this. A guy working

at an early age but even this had to be beyond your wildest dreams . Oh, Matt, it, it's not I have no ability to put it in words of, of what this actually feels like. To have come here as a kid, to have played this golfcourse , for it to be as instrumental as it has been in, in my understanding of what extraordinary golf architecture and extraordinary golf

late last night. You said you did a quick tour of the golfcourse , walked a couple holes. What are your thoughts? It's fantastic, it's just fantastic. I don't know what else to say. I did

masterpiece. Jack from time to time it's probably the most architecturally perfect golfcourse he's seen. People come to number two, to see number two. They come to wanna play number two. No matter where you go in the country, people who had never had the opportunity to play here were anxious to get here. It's a jewel. If there's a Saint Andrews to golf in America, most would say it's Pinehurst. Over 100 years old and host to multiple professional and amateur championships. This nation's old course, is number two. I think Ross's course probably started changing a little bit. When he died in 48. And I think it got a little bit more manicured, I think a lot of the areas were thinned out and pretty soon that golfcourse visually looked like any Southern club about anywhere. There were a lot of people that questioned where we had gone with the golfcourse . A lot of those distinctive sandy elements had been lost just slowly over time. What had happened really back in the 1970s is that, that was replaced with Bermuda grass ruff. And then for the US Opens , it that ruff just got narrower and narrower. After decades of age and layers of paint. It was time to consider going back to number two's original wood finish. The golf world has always respected that golfcourse . And if you don't have that, day in and day out, you cannot just be a place to just host the Open.

images and new found confidence. But before they'd commit, Bill Corr and Ben Crenshaw needed more. If you're talking about under's taking this restoration prior to the Open Championships, where's the SGA come in on all this? I don't think they actually believed it at first. They took us going out on the golfcourse , and, and, and, Bill and Ben saying, well here's what we'd like to do on the first hole, are you okay with

you had better not mess this up. He said, because as this golfcourse goes, so goes this entire town. And he turned and walked away. We stripped out those 35 acres of, of grass and